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Oliver Sacks To See And Not See

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In the writing, “To See and Not See” by Oliver Sacks is about a man who has gone for forty- five years without his eye sight. Virgil was his name and after he met a doctor who was capable of helping him regain his ability to see. Amy, Virgil’s wife decided to take her to see a doctor about his eyesight. Dr. Hamlin performed an unbelievable surgery that allowed him to see again. Many reasons why there was a different conclusion then what most readers expected. Based on sight,the senses and the culture of the situation. Throughout our lifetime, we see the world in different perspectives and in this article, how Virgil witnessed the world when he lost his eye sight and after he gained the ability his sight. Virgil had a turning point in his life when he lost his sight and then gained it again. The problem after he gained his sight was the fact he couldn't understand the world anymore. When Virgil was visually impaired, he was made to make up the world as he thought and imagined it in his own way. After he could see, he had a hard time understanding the world he could see from then on and could not connect to what he thought of what he saw from that point on. It was an obstacle that all his life he has …show more content…

Before when he was blind, he could imagine the world in his own point of view but after the surgery, he could not any longer. He regretted ever since but later on lost partial sight. Due to obesity and other medical complications that cause him to be hospitalized. Virgil was allowed to have eyesight but ended up not wanting it so it led to him losing it again. It is displayed as a blessing back to the truth that he has constantly known. Virgil is permitted to not see, permitted to escape from the glaring, confounding universe of sight and space, and to come back to his own particular genuine being, the touch world that has been his home for right around fifty

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